Hood v. Hood

CAMPBELL, Judge.

The husband assigns as error evidence introduced by the wife pertaining to settlement negotiations which had been conducted between the parties without a final agreement being consummated. While the rules of evidence are not as strictly enforced where the judge hears a case without the intervention of a jury, nevertheless, evidence which is obviously incompetent should not be permitted even in such a hearing. 2 Stansbury’s N. C. Evidence, § 180 (Brandis Rev. 1973). In the instant case it was error to permit the wife to testify as to settlement negotiations which had been…